Howard:

From your response, I'm not sure I was as clear with my question as I should
have been.

Let me try again:

I would like to set Winamp up as my default player for any audio and/or
video files I want to play.

I used to have Winamp configured in this way, but, as a result of what I
think was a Windows update of some sort, Windows Media Player now comes up
whenever I access an audio or video file.

I'd like to make Winamp as my default audio and video file player once
again, due to its greater accessibility.

Hopefully, you or someone else on the list can let me know how this can be
done.  I simply don't remember what I did initially to make this happen.

Tom Behler: KB8TYJ


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Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 2:46 PM
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Subject: Re: Off Topic: Winamp Question

Tom, their are two ways to do this.
Try the simplest first.
1.  Open winamp.  Press control-p for preferences.  In the file options, tab
to all and press enter.

Now to associate any file type with your chosen program do the following.

1.  Highlight the file.
2.  right click the file, and arrow up to the "open with pull down".
3.  Press right arrow and highlight the program you want.

4. tab to the check box to do this all the time and press enter.
This is particularly useful to say make .brf files automatically open in
k1000.

idea 3.
open control pannel, go to file and folder options, press control-tab twice
to the file association tab.
Here you will find a list of over 600 file types that your computer already
knows about.  The same right click and open with dialog will work.  Their is
also an add option, this is useful if you want to tell your computer about
brl and brf files.
Once your computer knows about them, you can actually download them from
BARD.  With out knowing about them and associating them with a program, the
computer will open them rather than downloading them.

The other thing you will want to do, if you haven't is in the folder
options, tell the computer to display the name of known file types.  This
way, you know what type of file you are highlighting.  This is turned on by
default.
You want the option to "hide extentions of known file types" to be off.

Let me know if this works.